Last week, I offered up a question to you, my many blog readers.ย If I were to put my photos and other artworks up for purchase through my own personal site or through an online store, would you purchase them? The overwhelming response was “Yes.” Okay, you responded, so I’m building a store. And the…
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What’s better … “partly cloudy” or “mostly sunny”?
With only two weeks left before my planned trip to photograph the 2017 Great American Eclipse, the first advance weather forecasts have appeared on various online weather websites. I’ve been worried about my trip – only because if I’m traveling twelve hours to capture an eclipse, the last thing I need is overcast skies or…
Read MoreIf I made the offer … would you accept?
“That’s the photo I want.” He wanted one of my nocturnal astronomy photos.ย Specifically, he read my blog from a month ago – this one in particular – and wanted a print of this specific photo. I hadn’t initially thought of selling the artwork, it was simply a test for a future Milky Way shot…
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My 2017 Big E photo contest entries are …
I’ve had a pretty respectable run with the Big E’s photo competition.ย In my last five years of entering photos in this show, I’ve pulled a ribbon with every photo entered.ย And four of my photos – The Jumbuck, Jesus Saves, Poestenkill Falls and The Heavens Above, The Forest Below – have claimed first place…
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From an eclipse ring to a step-up ring
With three weeks to go until the 2017 total solar eclipse, I’m preparing and testing all my equipment for the day.ย I was gifted a 62mm solar filter for my camera, and I have a camera with a 62mm focal length – my 19mm f/3.8 Vivitar lens. So yesterday, I tested out my equipment.ย Went…
Read MoreA postcard from the 2017 Iowa State Fair Photo Competition
What you see here are two postcards from my previous Iowa State Fair submissions.ย Five entries sent in 2014 … four entries sent in 2016.ย All nine entries were rejected like Chuck Miller on date night. And yet, I’m trying one more time.ย Such is the masochist in me.
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โ+โฝ = ๐ ?
Last year, someone gifted me a solar lens filter, with the challenge of photographing the upcoming total eclipse on August 21, 2017. I take challenges seriously.ย Believe me, I do. Heck, it took me two years of planning to capture the “blood moon eclipse” two years ago – everything from scouting possible shooting locations to…
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“And here comes Mugshots Bro from out of nowhere!!”
It’s Sunday afternoon, and I want to test out a lens I haven’t used in a while – my super-telephoto Soviet cadiatrophic lens, the MC MTO-11, an 1100mm f/16 piece of glass that can pick up images half a mile away. My plan – stand at one end of the half-mile oval at Saratoga Harness…
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Empire State Plaza 4th of July Fireworks, 2017 Edition
I got there.ย I got the photos.ย And I got away. That’s usually the gist of my photographic excursions on Independence Day. And I’ve got the pictures to prove it.
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The light painting dilemma
The other evening, I drove to the Corinth Reservoir and took some test photos of the Milky Way galaxy.ย These were test images for when I make my return trip this year to the Boreas Ponds.ย And you know I shall return, just like General MacArthur at the Philippines. During my shoot, I made a…
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